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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Medway website
1,997 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 15 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
68 Watling Street Strood Rochester ME2 3NY
Received 17 Jul 2009Unit 1-27 Phase 34 Sabre Court Valentine Close Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0RW
Received 29 May 2009Unit 1-13 Phase 1 Chieftain Close Gillingham ME8 0PP
Received 29 May 20098 Saxon Close Strood Rochester ME2 3RR
Received 15 Jul 200993 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BZ
Received 13 Jul 2009138 Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QT
Received 17 Jun 2009Former Bishopscourt Kitchen Garden Love Lane Rochester Kent
Received 8 Jul 200997 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HW
Received 8 Jun 2009447 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8EL
Received 14 Jul 200914 Christmas Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SN
Received 18 Mar 2009179 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 3 Jul 200910 Osprey Avenue Chatham ME5 7JA
Received 10 Jul 2009110 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QT
Received 13 Jul 2009National Grid Grain LNG Limited Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 9 Jul 2009National Grid Grain LNG Limited Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 9 Jul 2009101 Saunders Street Gillingham ME7 1HY
Received 2 Jul 20094 Mossy Glade Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LQ
Received 13 Jul 200932 Lakewood Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NS
Received 3 Jul 200918 Elmwood Road Chattenden Rochester ME3 8ND
Received 10 Jun 200985 Greenfinches Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PW
Received 1 Jul 200912 Old Barn Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PJ
Received 12 Jun 2009Compass Centre Pembroke Chatham Kent. ME4 4YH
Received 5 Jun 2009Parkwood Junior School Deanwood Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LP
Received 1 Jun 2009140 High Street Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8AR
Received 14 May 2009Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Medway Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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